Cinema: The Odd Couple

Waddling around on feet that by all rights ought to be webbed, Oscar
Madison is the slop-happiest hero in history. In midsummer, Christmas
stockings still hang over his hearth, and his refrigerator is cleaned
so seldom that he has milk standing up in there without the bottle. And
yet, as played by Walter Matthau, he is the better half of The Odd
Couple.

The Neil Simon comedy that lit up Broadway for more than two years
shines again in this flawed but still funny screen adaptation. Heading
for divorce, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) is...